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Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative (ViVI)
ViVI was founded in 2008 in Vienna, Austria, as an international think tank aiming to promote evidence-based vaccine safety research and communication, and has since been registered as an international non-governmental organisation (NGO). ViVI ...
Ten "Golden Rules" for Successful Entertainment-Education Programming
In this presentation, Kriss Barker offers some advice to communication practitioners who are developing and implementing entertainment-education (EE) interventions.
Karamoja on the Move: Testing A Peer Learning & Community Theatre Model
Emorikinos Daadang Etogogongo Alatanakin Ngidwe (EDEAN) (Let's Come Together and Strengthen Child Spacing) is a community-based intervention in Uganda that is designed to test the hypothesis that increasing fertility awareness (FA) through ...
Emergency Risk Communication: Lessons Learned from a Rapid Review of Recent ...
"...going local plays a central role in effective emergency communication, from engaging with and building on local leadership and organizational structures, to using local staff, communication patterns, networks and languages, to tailoring ...
Exploring Social and Behavior Change Communication to Support Delivery of ...
"Effective micronutrient powder distribution programming requires a behavior change strategy that is both effective and appropriate in a specific context." Drawing on the experience of the United States Agency for International Development ...
Recording Errors in Homemade Home-Based Records to Record Vaccination ...
"Unfortunately, policies on the best course of action in the event of a HBR stock-out are rare, but such guidance is critical for health workers."
Keynote Address - Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq - 2018 International Social and ...
Ayesha Raza Farooq is a member of Pakistan's Senate and has been the prime minister's point person on the nation's polio eradication programmes since November 2013. At the time, Pakistan - one of three nations where polio remained endemic - was ...
New Insights on the Road to Zero
This presentation by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) explores that organisation's response to the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which, in its May 2013 report, recommended that ...
Can basic income contribute towards SDG 5 on Gender Equality and Women’s ...
Author: Ranjani K. Murthy, April 17 2018* - The basic income movement has a long history. As used now, a basic income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement. ...
Silent refusals and distrust of vaccines is a big challenge for vaccination ...
Author: Abdul Salam Afridi, March 23 2018: After the fake immunization campaign in a failed attempt to get Osama bin Laden's DNA lineages prior to his assassination in 2011, the efforts of polio eradication in northwestern Pakistan, the last ...
The Importance of Social Networking in a National Polio Vaccine Campaign
"We encourage every health care worker to get involved in social networks, despite their challenges, to help bring medically accurate, science-based medicine to the general public in a nonmediated manner."
Global Perspective on Social Data
This presentation by Rustam Haydarov of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was produced for the 15th meeting of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), October 31 - November 1 2017, ...
Vaccine Images on Twitter: Analysis of What Images Are Shared
"Despite widespread acceptance that images are crucial in public health messaging, there is no visual theory that systematically guides the design and use of images, and characteristics of effective images in health communication remain unclear..."
The Influence of Provider Communication Behaviors on Parental Vaccine ...
"Participatory communication formats for initiating vaccine recommendations appear to be associated with a highly rated visit experience and reduced parental vaccine acceptance."
Vaccine Hesitancy around the Globe: Analysis of Three Years of WHO/UNICEF ...
This analysis was undertaken to gather a global picture of hesitancy and whether this is changing over time. It reviews three years of data available as of June 2017 from the World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) ...
#SBCCSummit
Hi - if you are going to be in Nusa Dua for the What Works? SBCC Summit very much look forward to meeting you there. if you were part of an organising committee but can not make it to Indonesia we will miss you. If you have previously expressed ...
Rotary's PolioPlus Program: Lessons Learned, Transition Planning, and Legacy
"When polio is finally gone, we will have the knowledge from the lessons learned with PolioPlus, such as the value of direct involvement by local Rotarians, the program for emergency funding, innovative tactics, and additional approaches for ...
Vaccine Hesitancy and Healthcare Providers
"While the findings of the literature review reported on in this paper were largely specific to HCPs' individual vaccine hesitancy or confidence and its influence on patient recommendations, that dyadic relationship is one small, albeit critical ...
Assessments of Global Drivers of Vaccine Hesitancy in 2014 - Looking beyond ...
Vaccine hesitancy is defined as a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite available vaccination services. Measuring vaccine hesitancy and its determinants worldwide can clarify the scope of the problem and help guide the development of ...
Understanding Threats to Polio Vaccine Commitment among Caregivers in ...
"To enhance OPV commitment, it might be useful to consider a multifactorial approach that highlights building trust in vaccinators, providing facts about transmission, sharing positive messages to overcome key rumours, and strengthening community ...
Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action
"An understanding of the psychology behind vaccination behavior can inform both theoretical development and facilitation of evidence-based vaccination policy and practice." Faced with outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, parents, ...
Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics Case Studies from Africa
This workbook is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and challenges that are encountered in the process of conducting global health research in places where the effects of global, political, and economic ...
Attitude and Subjective Wellbeing of Non-compliant Mothers to Childhood Oral ...
"Negative attitude to OPV supplemental immunization has likely influence on mothers' immunization seeking behaviors and may contribute to non-compliance to OPV supplemental immunization in Northern Nigeria."
'We All Work Together to Vaccinate the Child': A Formative Evaluation of a ...
"These findings demonstrate the benefits, challenges and nuances involved in promoting shared community responsibility for immunization." Increased attention is being paid to the role of community engagement (CE) strategies in improving demand ...
Fighting Polio: Why Radio Dramas Failed in Pakistan?
"Basic principles of health campaigns and entertainment-education strategies were violated during the production..." Entertainment-education (EE) strategies have been successfully used in health campaigns for the prevention of different diseases ...
HEALTH at the WHAT WORKS? SBCC Summit
This is the space for dialogue and debate on some of the HEALTH focused presentations at the WHAT WORKS? SBCC Summit. Whether you are attending the Summit or not please do submit questions and share inisghts and ideas. When we have the ...
Social Mobilization for Polio and other Supplementary Immunization ...
"The systematic, step by step approach outlined here will help social mobilizers to work effectively and achieve their objectives: To inform, educate and encourage parents, carers and other stakeholders to better understand, seek and take up ...
Media Framing of Polio and Vaccination Campaigns in Pakistan
This paper offers a critique of newspaper coverage of the polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan between May 2011 and May 2014. Its purpose is to explore how the discourse of the Pakistani news media on polio has constructed knowledge about this ...
Social Mobilization and Community Engagement Central to the Ebola Response ...
"[M]any similarities in lessons learned have been drawn from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and other events, such as earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal, the Zika outbreak in Latin America, and longer-term challenges such as HIV or polio. The ...
COMMUNITY MEDIA at the What Works Summit
This is the space for discussion of COMMUNITY MEDIA related knowledge and issues shared at the What Works? Summit in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. Wens i will attempt to post the presentations when received. Feel free to ask questions in advance or ...
Eradicating Polio in Pakistan: An Analysis of the Challenges and Solutions ...
"Pakistan's polio eradication campaign provides important lessons for the delivery of future global health initiatives; the role of traditional social and religious norms and their wider diplomatic, security, economic and social repercussions in ...
Evaluation of Social Mobilization Network (SM Net): Final Evaluation Report
In 2013, scattered polio outbreaks in Somalia prompted a proactive vaccination response. As part of this, the Social Mobilisation Network (SM Net) was established in 2013 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to raise awareness of polio ...
Evaluation of Social Mobilization Network (SM Net): Inception Report
In response to the reduction in funding for the Social Mobilization Network (SM Net), and in order to investigate whether this system could be used to deliver other health interventions, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office for ...
Role of Social Mobilization (Network) in Polio Eradication in India
"At the core of SMNet lies co-opting the community. The SMNet uses the members of the community to seed networks with change."
University of Zambia - Master of Communication for Development (MCD)
Background information: The Master of Communication for Development (MCD) is a one and half-year Masters degree aimed at training personnel working in various development-related assignments within Zambia, the Southern African Development ...
Facing the Elephant in the Room: Sexual harassment holding women down
Author: Lilian Saka Kiefer, April 17 2018 - I recently attended a meeting on empowering women for leadership in politics and in public administration. The meeting provided a platform to reflect on various factors that stand in the way of ...
Community Engagement and Integrated Health and Polio Immunisation Campaigns ...
"...the provision of polio vaccines as part of a package of health services might be a better way to engage local communities and religious leaders than a polio-specific programme."
The Drum Beat 754 - Postgraduate C4D Education around the Globe
Postgraduate C4D Education around the Globe - The Drum Beat 754March 28, 2018
University of Sussex - MA Media Practice for Development and Social Change
Background information: The University of Sussex was the first of the new wave of UK universities founded in the 1960s, receiving its Royal Charter in 1961. The goal of the university is to deliver teaching and learning programmes informed by ...
Impact Data - Improving Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition and ...
"The community video approach proved effective in improving and sustaining knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and self-reported behaviors in Niger." Niger, located in the Sahel region of West Africa, is characterised by harsh climate ...
Conversations with Vaccine-Critical Parents
"...there are reasons to think that arts-based initiatives could provide neutral meeting grounds for dialogue between selected vaccine promoters and critics, and facilitate authentic trust-increasing encounters without the direct pressure of a ...
The Papua New Guinea University of Technology - Bachelor of Technology in ...
Background Information: The Department of Communication & Development Studies was first established as the Department of Language and Social Sciences (DoLSS) in the early 1970s. Its function was to teach English skills for academic purposes ...
A Narrative Engagement Framework to Understand HPV Vaccination Among Latina ...
Disparities in cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination persist among Vietnamese and Latina women in the United States (US). Contending that health communication studies aimed at identifying indicators of health disparities are ...
Pediatrician-Parent Conversations About Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: An ...
"...findings highlight the need to develop and evaluate physician-focused trainings on using presumptive language for same-day HPV vaccination."
When Parents Won't Vaccinate Their Children: A Qualitative Investigation of ...
"Although it is often suggested that providers need access to educational materials that address common misunderstandings about the risks and benefits of childhood vaccination, this study suggests that providers also need communication ...
University of Nairobi - Bachelor and Masters of Arts Development Communication
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HMIS Senior Advisor, Evidence for Health - Population Services International ...
Who we are With over 45 years of experience, working in over 60 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the ...
Senior Technical Advisor - HIV/AIDS and SRHR - Population Services ...
Who we are With over 45 years of experience, working in over 60 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the ...
Conducting a Situational Analysis and Engaging Stakeholders on Home-based ...
Home-based records (HBRs), or child immunisation cards, are a data collection and monitoring tool serving multiple purposes for the caregiver, health worker (HW), and health system. Research has found that the HBR is often underutilised or ...
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